How to Not Use Titanium Studio

note: this tutorial describes how to use the original Python build scripts
that studio uses. There is a new
cli interface for Titanium. Check
it out if you’re interested in developing on the command line.

and you’re ready to rock. Most of what you’ll need to do can be accomplished
with the titanium.py script, which you can run with the tsm run command.
However, we’ll have to use the builder.py script directly for some things
which are either not possible or broken with the titanium.py script. Here’s
the basics:

iPhone Simulator

$ tsm run 2.0.1 run --platform=iphone

iPad Simulator

This one uses the builder.py script. You’ll have to replace
$IOS_VER with the version of simulator to use (such as 4.0), $IOS_ID with your
app id, and $APP_NAME with the name of the app.

Android Emulator

“6” is the AVD ID, which identifies this Android device. You’ll see it in the
android program which comes with the Android sdk and lists AVDs.
$ANDROID_SDK is the path to your sdk.
$ANDROID_SKIN is one of the valid skins listed in the android program:

Android FastDev Launching

Before trying to launch you should put

ANDROID_SDK=/path/to/androidsdk/

into your .bashrc.

First, you’ll need to launch the emulator.
Then,
you can use the titanium.py script to start the fastdev server:

$ tsm run 2.0.1 fastdev start

Now that you’ve started the server, you can launch the app:

$ tsm run 2.0.1 run --platform=android

Cleaning the project

To clean the project you can just touch the tiapp.xml:

$ touch tiapp.xml

Conclusion

Unfortunately the titanium.py script can’t launch the emulator or build iOS
distributables. But, in combination with the builder.py scripts
you can pretty much completely ignore Titanium Studio.

I recommend using some kindof Makefile (or Cakefile, Jakefile, Rakefile, etc)
to manage all of these commands.